Made in Montreal

  Newly arrived immigrants at Pier 21, Halifax, Canada, mid-1950s                                                                     The st...

“Can you take me back where I came from, brother can you take me back?” Avonmore Avenue. This was my parents' first home after they marr...

Childhood home, 4614 Oxford Avenue, Montreal I Years had been from Home And now before the Door I dared not enter, lest a Face I never saw b...

My heart went out of visiting Girouard Avenue when the renovations began. Whatever there was of the place as it used to be is now gon...

Back porch at 2226 Girouard Avenue, my grandmother and my cousin Herb, spring 1938 My parents worked hard and ensured their children had the...

Looking south on Girouard Avenue (1) Return to Girouard Avenue   When I returned to my grandmother’s flat at 2226 Girouard Avenue in May 200...

Monday evening's book launch for Girouard Avenue and Blue Poppy , at The Word book store on Milton in McGill Univrsity's student gh...

Coracle Press is pleased to announce new poetry books Girouard Avenue by Stephen Morrissey Blue Poppy by Ilona Martonfi Please join us...

Stained glass window above the front door at 2226 Girouard Avenue. Our tour of 2226 Girouard Avenue has come to an end. I have other photog...

Top photo: my Auntie Ivy, then below is my Uncle Alex, holding their son Herb. Then my grandmother, Edith Sweeney Morrissey, on the same day...

More photographs taken in the lane between Girouard and the street to the west of it. Winter 2009.

I took these photographs a few months before the other interior photographs--it's January or February 2009--ph...

Above: The storage room. Above: Looking from the kitchen to the hallway leading to the front of the flat. Above and below: T...